Re: Recourse for Price Gouging?

Is there really such a thing as "price gouging" when it comes to luxury goods? I think not. I understand that it can be frustrating to see a bottle priced well above MSRP. As a consumer you really only have three options... Buy it. Pass on it. Shop elsewhere... That is... If elsewhere has it in stock. Which they usually don't. Hence why the guy who does has it priced the way it is.

Re: Recourse for Price Gouging?

Re: Recourse for Price Gouging?

Originally Posted by squire

The store is within it's rights to charge what they want or even to display the bottles of whisky with no intention of sale. I know a merchant who does that, keeps them right beside the cash register, he won't sell them but will sell something "like" them.

Squire lives in a more enlightened state where merchants are free to charge whatever the customers will tolerate. In Ohio we are totally protected against price gouging because the state determines what we will pay. In exchange, all we have to do is accept the state's definition of what it is we want. You want AAA? Too bad. You want VOB BIB? Too bad. You want (fill in the blank)? All the Buckeye bourbon lovers are consoled by the thought that we will never even see a bottle of Pappy because "there is no market for it here." But if we want something "like" Pappy, we can always buy the Weller 12. Oh, wait. No we can't.

If God made anything better than bourbon he must have kept it for Hisself.